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Blue Print Two [Print media]
2011
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Abstract
Research Background
Contemporary Printmaking has seen how advances in digital technologies have offered new approaches to previous traditional printmaking processes. The combination of digital and analogue printmaking has changed the medium, allowing for simultaneous difference and similarity within the print to occur.
The focus of this research is on how merging these technologies explores the process of variation through replication and questions the concept of the original print in relation to the multiple. The research exploits the power of variation in reproductive methodologies to develop auratic encounter with personal archives as a form of self-expression. Further to this, examining how the use of both old and new technologies together can foster innovation in print media.
Research Contribution
The research utilises this merging of analogue and digital technology to focus specifically on issues of identity connected to inherited stereotypes and myths. In this body of work, digital processes used together with analogue methods are proposing new ways to re-contextualise source material that seductively played into my own childhood imagination as symbols of Australian masculinity. Works in this folio combine traditional print process and new technology to form a hybrid practice, investigating inherent tensions of print process and imagery utilised.
The research utilises this merging of analogue and digital technology to focus specifically on issues of identity connected to inherited stereotypes and myths. In this body of work, digital processes used together with analogue methods are proposing new ways to re-contextualise source material that seductively played into my own childhood imagination as symbols of masculinity. Works in this folio combine traditional print process and new technology to form a hybrid practice, investigating inherent tensions of print process and imagery utilised.
Research Significance
The significance of this research is in its examination of a range of interdisciplinary approaches to process in which ideas are allied to process and mixed media technique, resulting in hybrid practice. Its excellence is evidenced by. The work’s significance is indicated by their inclusion in several peer-reviewed group shows, including.
1) FOOTSTEPS, 16 Northern Rivers Printmakers, exhibited at IMPACT 7 (international Printmaking conference), Monash University Gallery, VIC, Australia, and Quixotic Gallery, Alstonville, NSW, Australia, 2011.
2) Representation of the work in several peer reviews in journals and catalogues, including
Harvey, S, Irving, L, Muddiman, S, (2011) FOOTSTEPS, New works from 16 Northern Rivers Printmakers, ex.cat., Southern Cross University Printery, Lismore, Australia, p.2 & cover.
Other Notes - Artist Statement
An interest in mapping geographical distance led me to devise a drawing strategy based on time and repetition to inform a sense of place.
In my work titled ‘Blue Print One’, the distance between Northern Rivers and Melbourne was measured by drawing for the duration it would take to fly. For every kilometre, one small house with repeat pattern was drawn onto the etching plate. In my companion work titled ‘Blue Print Two’, the distance between Melbourne and Northern Rivers was measured by drawing for the duration it would take to drive. For every kilometre, one small roundabout was drawn with elaborate detail onto the etching plate.
Details
- Title
- Blue Print Two [Print media]
- Creators
- Darren Bryant - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Format
- Relief printed etching
- Identifiers
- 991013174813002368
- Copyright
- Copyright Darren Bryant 2012
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Other creative works